The Best Manufacturers of 2026? Let Us Know Which Ones You Think, You Could Win a Graphics Card
Periodically, we ask you readers of Hardware Upgrade to indicate which companies in the tech world and which types of products have captured your interest the most over the past 12 months. To do this, we invite you to vote in the Hardware Upgrade Community Awards 2026, a survey through which we collect your personal brand preferences divided by product type.
Hardware Upgrade Community Awards 2026: Make Your Voice Heard!
Expressing your preference is very simple: just access the survey at the following link: Hardware Upgrade Community Awards 2026 and select the manufacturers that you believe have stood out the most over the year in each of the represented categories. It’s not necessary to express a preference for every category; in fact, we suggest you do so only for those in which you have a well-defined personal opinion.
The collected indications will allow us to identify the favorite companies in the various product categories: data from Italian readers of Hardware Upgrade will also help select the best manufacturers at the European level in the EHA Reader Awards 2026, as similar initiatives are currently underway by the sites that make up the European Hardware Association, which includes:
- Hardwareluxx in Germany,
- KitGuru in the UK,
- iO-Tech in Finland,
- PurePC in Poland,
- Lab501 in Romania,
- Geeknetic in Spain,
- Technology Insider in the Netherlands, and
- CowCotland in France.
At the end of the survey, if you wish, you can participate in a fantastic prize draw: a graphics card of your choice between an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070Ti model or one with an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, with a maximum purchase value of €1,099. The winner will be announced on July 23, and they can choose the graphics card of their choice, for both GPU and brand, with the only constraint of staying within the maximum cost of €1,099, including taxes and shipping fees.
You have until July 26 to express your preference. Voting is open until 10:59 PM on July 26, 2026; the winner will be announced on July 29, 2026. In the following days, we will publish the results of the preferences of Hardware Upgrade readers, discussing in a special article the preferences of Italian consumers regarding the best companies for each product category.
This survey is organized by the European Hardware Association, of which Hardware Upgrade is a founding member. Any email addresses collected will be managed in compliance with regulations and used solely to notify the winner of the prize: once this is done, the email addresses will be deleted. The responsible party for collecting the email addresses of participants in the lottery and the prize offered is Parsec Media, publisher of the site Geeknetic, which is a founding member of the European Hardware Association. Parsec Media will handle the delivery of the prize to the winner randomly selected from all participants on a European basis. You can participate in the survey by following this link.